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. | Jim Spellman/WireImage A friend of mine once told me that You are where your attention is. Its the decision about what to pay attention to and what not to pay attention to. Sean Illing How do you define a word like attention? So one way to think about attention is the flash beam of thought.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words."

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

From a scientific perspective, creativity is your ability to think of something original from connections made between pre-existing ideas in your brain. Once your energy levels get low, adenosine starts to slow your brain functioning down. Your brain on coffee.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

Plants in the office are part of something University of Michigan psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan call “attention restoration theory.”. Since our brains work so hard on tasks which require direct attention, sometimes they need little breaks. According to several studies, the answer to this question is a resounding yes.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Studies have shown you work at highest brain capacity, with your best focus and attention, before lunch hour. By keeping this in mind, you can dedicate your mornings to your most brain-busting work, and schedule mental breaks for the afternoon when your attention span is already at its lowest. Before 12 p.m. Take a nap.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

On socials, it has a staid strategy of essentially reposting traditional ad materialsan approach thats less than ideal in a social media landscape that rewards brands who embrace big personalities and brain rot content. So, CPK decided to use the four decade milestone as an opportunity to shake things up by staging a midlife crisis.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

But the reality is, you probably made a mistake in buying those things and it literally hurts your brain to come to terms with that fact. Your brain views the loss of one of your valued possessions as the same as something that causes you physical pain. Clutter’s impact on your brain. Why Apple wants you to touch its stuff.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Use numbers: Our brains can understand it more easily. Story-telling is in fact the most powerful way to activate our brains. This Neural Coupling modal describes it best: The same emotional areas of the brain are activated in the listener, that the speaker experienced as he tells a story of an event: 6.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Do you have to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel or not? And regardless of what marketing terms you use, at the end of the day, Tesla’s very clear that you need to be paying attention, have your hands on the wheel and be prepared to take over if the technology’s not going to do the right thing. Who’s your map provider?

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

But this approach has brought the latest entry in the long-running franchise plenty of attention ahead of its November 29 launch. The official Need for Speed Twitter account had already received complaints and plenty of headlines over its antagonistic responses to users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They are attentive to their communities on an almost daily basis. Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Effective social media managers enjoy engaging with and responding to comments on social media sites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

It’s an influx of information in my brain that I really don’t need. Although it likely won’t be on too many up-to-the-minute news items (like the recent Ning Thing) because I’ll be paying less attention to those goings on, and more attention to other, deeper things. And, I’ll still be blogging.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It works, because there’s nothing else drawing your attention. A bad user experience discourages people from exploring your content and, with the attention span of the average user these days, may cause them to abandon your site altogether. Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know.

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The Next Web

JUNE 22, 2013

Only change your pace for the criticism that you feel is most on-par and worthy of your attention. Are you right-brained? It’s time to take on some left-brained hires to encourage balance. Constructive criticism from experienced members of the startup community will keep you in line. Keep an open mind when consuming feedback.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). The participants spent two nights in a sleep lab where the researchers measured their brain activity, looking at alertness and ability to concentrate. Night owls vs. early birds. An un-timed break.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

My brain is trying desperately to stop me, saying things like, What you’re writing right now sucks. My brain fed off this uncertainty to try and stop me from writing because that’s what brains do?—?they It’s as if writing loosens up your brain, allowing ways for it to connect it ways it couldn’t before. No one cares!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But recently she was overhearing aggravated remarks from staff: she wasn’t paying attention to them, she was missing appointments, and forgetting to discuss important points at meetings. The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. The attention chapter is about why and how to control your attention when you’re online. Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works. There are three stages starting with ignition, what captures immediate attention. It is based on reciprocity.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you’ve been paying any attention to the laptop market in the past year, you probably know what the Zephyrus G14 is. The final thing to note is that this comes preloaded with a program called The Brain. The goal of the software is to — I am not making this up — “map your brain.” The weirdest and coolest 14-inch gaming laptop.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

But my brain framed it in a way that makes it look like even more of a steal: You'd be getting a premium robot vacuum and mop combo that washes and dries its own mopping pads and avoids small obstacles and has a pet camera for half the price of the 2025 Roborock flagship I'm currently testing, the $1,599.99 at Amazon $1,399.99

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Once you wrap your brain around these truths about what funders want to accomplish with their giving, you can begin to shape the message in your Letter of Inquiry that’ll give them exactly what they want. Is there a problem you can reveal that needs immediate attention but that no one is really paying attention to?

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Forum One

JUNE 26, 2024

It combines methods and theories of psychology and linguistics to derive a fuller understanding of how the brain processes language. The advent of neuroimaging has made it possible to examine brain activity—what areas of the brain and neurons are firing—when a person is processing language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It helps avoid burnout and improves attention. On a video call, because we are all sitting in different homes, if we turn to look out the window, we worry it might seem like we’re not paying attention,” writes Liz Fosselien for Harvard Business Review. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 9, 2015

Indeed, if one were to track all the time in a workday spent glued to our incoming messages and bowing to the attention they require, the resulting accumulation of hours would no doubt seem ridiculously exhaustive. As Mann notes, “It’s about how to reclaim your email, your attention, and your life. That ‘zero?’ That’s it.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ? The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Actually, they are triplets because Microsoft has a bot named Bing, who receives less attention. Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions. But pay attention to the caveats that will keep those interactions safe and entertaining. You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The video is an animated sketch and includes some quirky-looking characters: This video caught my attention because it looked different and I wanted to know what would happen next. The beautiful thing about surprise is it helps make things more interesting and sticky in your brain. But Virgin’s safety video was different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. We think of something else we need to do while doing something else. Source: Lumosity Site.

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The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

It is too easy to get caught up in managing everything that needs to be managed, and sometimes you need to refuel and feed the creative side of your brain too. Your attention should be with your company. Find balance in your life by enjoying what works and paying attention to bad signals. Image credit: Thinkstock.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

This simple word change has huge implications on gaining the attention and support of audiences. Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions. Imagine if instead it read, “1 in 10 people lack access to clean drinking water”. However, this is not necessarily true.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

There are primitive parts of your brain that control your reaction to threats on your reputation, making these reactions extremely difficult to control. What happens in our brain. When you think about negative consequences, a part of your brain, the hypothalamus, activates and triggers the pituitary gland to secrete the hormone ACTH.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words."

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. First, pay attention. These are a few of the most obvious: The rise of e-commerce is closing shopping malls and permanently altering consumer habits. For better or worse, social media creates a new form of communication.

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